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Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War
by Tolley, Kemp
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870211323
- ISBN 13
- 9780870211324
- Seller
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About This Item
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Clean hardcover first edition book in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Map illustrated endpapers; U.S. Naval Institute bookplate on front free endpaper. Pages and edges are clean. Illustrated with photographs. 345 pages with index. Clean beautifully illustrated dust jacket has one-inch closed tear at top spine corner, small v-shaped chip at top rear panel edge; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. True story of a sailing ship that was quickly commissioned as a U.S. Navy ship in 1941. Her mission, on direct instructions from F. D. Roosevelt, was to put to sea on a "defensive information patrol." Admiral Tolley, then Lanikai's commanding officer, surmised her real mission was to provoke the Japanese to sink her, thus triggering U.S. entry into World War II..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31829
- Title
- Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War
- Author
- Tolley, Kemp
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0870211323
- ISBN 13
- 9780870211324
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Place of Publication
- Annapolis, Maryland
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- SHIPS, SAILING, ADVENTURE, FIRST EDITION, KEMP TOLLEY, AMERICAN HISTORY, WORLD WAR II
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; World War II;
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